chitchcock

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

mbacou

## Example procedure for working with data (attributes) inside SpatialPolygonsDataFrame objects

# Load my favorite libraries for that sort of work
library(data.table)
library(rgdal)

# Load 2 shapefiles that, say, we want to merge.
# Note that you can read pretty much any spatial format using readOGR().
tza.l2 <- readOGR("./analysis/TZA-AC-07/maps", "tza-ac-07_L2")
tza.l1 <- readOGR("./analysis/TZA-AC-07/maps", "tza-ac-07_L1")

josecarlosgonz

#Write geojson
#====

#Load libraries
library(rgdal)

#dataMap is a dataframe with coordinates on cols 11 (LATITUDE) and 12 (LONGITUDE)
#Transfor coordinates to numeric
dataMap$LATITUDE  <- as.numeric(dataMap$LATITUDE)
dataMap$LONGITUDE  <- as.numeric(dataMap$LONGITUDE)

graydon

# extracted from http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/110m/cultural/ne_110m_admin_0_countries.zip
# under public domain terms

country_bounding_boxes = {
    'AF': ('Afghanistan', (60.5284298033, 29.318572496, 75.1580277851, 38.4862816432)),
    'AO': ('Angola', (11.6400960629, -17.9306364885, 24.0799052263, -4.43802336998)),
    'AL': ('Albania', (19.3044861183, 39.624997667, 21.0200403175, 42.6882473822)),
    'AE': ('United Arab Emirates', (51.5795186705, 22.4969475367, 56.3968473651, 26.055464179)),
    'AR': ('Argentina', (-73.4154357571, -55.25, -53.628348965, -21.8323104794)),
    'AM': ('Armenia', (43.5827458026, 38.7412014837, 46.5057198423, 41.2481285671)),

mishari

[{"place_id":"97994878","licence":"Data \u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0. http:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/copyright","osm_type":"relation","osm_id":"161950","boundingbox":["30.1375217437744","35.0080299377441","-88.4731369018555","-84.8882446289062"],"lat":"33.2588817","lon":"-86.8295337","display_name":"Alabama, United States of America","place_rank":"8","category":"boundary","type":"administrative","importance":0.83507032450272,"icon":"http:\/\/nominatim.openstreetmap.org\/images\/mapicons\/poi_boundary_administrative.p.20.png"}]
[{"place_id":"97421560","licence":"Data \u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0. http:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/copyright","osm_type":"relation","osm_id":"162018","boundingbox":["31.3321762084961","37.0042610168457","-114.818359375","-109.045196533203"],"lat":"34.395342","lon":"-111.7632755","display_name":"Arizona, United States of America","place_rank":"8","category":"boundary","type":"administrative","importance":0.83922181098242,"icon":"http:\/\/nominatim.openst

PurpleBooth

Project Title

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Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

leonardofed

A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for the AWS Certifications

A curated list of awesome AWS resources you need to prepare for the all 5 AWS Certifications. This gist will include: open source repos, blogs & blogposts, ebooks, PDF, whitepapers, video courses, free lecture, slides, sample test and many other resources.

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madhephaestus

import com.neuronrobotics.sdk.dyio.DyIO;
import com.neuronrobotics.sdk.ui.ConnectionDialog;
ScriptingEngine.gitScriptRun(
            "https://github.com/CommonWealthRobotics/BowlerCom.git", // git location of the library
            "examples/DyIOLargeChip/DyIOLargeChip.ino" , // Arduino DyIo default firmware
            null
            );


System.out.println("Starting");

ewenchou

1. Create a service file like dash_sniffer.service
2. Put it in /lib/systemd/system/
3. Reload systemd using command: systemctl daemon-reload
4. Enable auto start using command: systemctl enable dash_sniffer.service

tgh0831

##### This is a simple RODBC example
##### The ODBCDriverName will be the driver name in ODBC Administrator

require(RODBC)

#open the ODBC connection
ch <- odbcConnect("ODBCDriverName")

##### Alternative ODBC connection for Microsoft SQL Server
ch <- odbcDriverConnect(